NYC preppie killer arrested in undercover drug sting

NEW YORK -- So-called "preppie killer" Robert Chambers, who strangled a young woman during a Central Park tryst in the 1980s, has been arrested on charges of selling cocaine out of his Manhattan residence, police said.

Chambers, 41, was arrested late Monday at his Upper East Side home after a struggle with officers, police said. He was charged with several counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance and resisting arrest, police said. Chambers' 39-year-old girlfriend was also arrested on drug-selling charges.

Police arrested Chambers in 2004 for misdemeanor heroin possession and unlicensed driving. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 days in jail and ordered to pay a $200 fine. Chambers was released from prison on Valentine's Day 2003 after serving 15 years for the 1986 strangling of Jennifer Levin in Central Park.